What’s the ESPlorer?
This IDE allows you to establish a serial communications with your ESP8266, send commands, upload code directly to the ESP8266 Chip and much more.
Supported platforms:
Windows (x86, x86-64)
Linux (x86, x86-64, ARM soft & hard float)
Solaris (x86, x86-64)
Mac OS X (x86, x86-64, PPC, PPC64)
How to install ESPlorer IDE
Download the ESPlorer.zip and unzip it. you should see the following files.
Requires JAVA (SE version 7 and above) installed to run this IDE
Required Library..
https://code.google.com/p/java-simple-serial-connector/
https://github.com/bobbylight/RSyntaxTextArea
Execute/Run the ESPlorer.jar
Note: If you are running Mac OS X or Linux you should use the command line in your terminal to run the IDE >
sudo java-jar ESPlorer.jar